The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations
TL;DR — The Snowden-disclosed GCHQ deck on online deception, discrediting targets and manipulating discourse.
Classified SECRET//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY, disclosed in the Snowden material and published by The Intercept.
A GCHQ training deck from the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) covering online covert operations: discrediting a target, manipulating the outcome of online discussion, the psychology of deception and influence. Its tone is startlingly informal — the cover is a photograph of someone holding a handwritten sign reading “I’m not trying to impress you But, i’m BATMAN”.
The most consequential document in this batch. It is a state signals-intelligence agency’s own account of doing reputation attacks and discourse manipulation, in its own words and its own slide design.
Where this came from
50 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.